Your Web, Half a Second Sooner

Re:Your Web, Half a Second Sooner by eli on Thursday March 17, 2011 @02:47PM (#2337448)

Advertising isn't inherently evil. At its best it actually adds value to the viewer. Consider the ads in bridal magazines or during the Super Bowl.

Perhaps the NYTimes can pull off a paywall (we'll see soon enough), but most content producers can't. So where does that leave us? Micropayments? Would you really want to pay to Tweet?

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Re:Your Web, Half a Second Sooner by thaumaturgy on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:06PM (#2337537)

Neither quite here nor there: I noticed recently that DuckDuckGo has signed up with Carbon Ads for their website advertising, and I really like it.

I've been an ardent ad-blocker for years now, and I'm actually glad Carbon Ads gets past the filter, because the ads it shows look great, somehow manage to get my attention without competing for it, and are showing some pretty neat services that I hadn't heard of before.

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Re:Your Web, Half a Second Sooner by jamesjyu on Thursday March 17, 2011 @05:41PM (#2338245)

+1 for niche ad networks that know their audiences.

I recently added Influads (similar to carbon) on one of my side projects, and I actually got a complement about the ads from a user! That was the last thing I expected.

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Re:Your Web, Half a Second Sooner by Dramatize on Thursday March 17, 2011 @06:40PM (#2338467)

I love these ads because they work as a filter for new products I might be interested in.

The ad networks are selective about the companies they accept.

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